equivocating, fudging, hedging, pussyfooting, tergiversating, waffling, weaseling
flip-flopping, yo-yoingdodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirtingbypassing, circumventingcaviling(or cavilling), quibblingstraddling
beating around the bush(or beating about the bush), straddling the fence